WESTERN SUDANIC

Meaning of WESTERN SUDANIC in English

noun

Usage: usually capitalized W&S

: a language family of West Africa to which were added the Bantu and Adamawa-Eastern languages to form the Niger-Congo family

Webster's New International English Dictionary. Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012

WESTERN — I Genre of novels and short stories, motion pictures, and television and radio shows set in the American West, usually …
Английский словарь Британика
WESTERN — I. ˈwestə(r)n, - R also -t ə n adjective Etymology: Middle English westeren, westerne, from Old English westerne; akin to …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SUDANIC — I. (ˈ) ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ik, -ēk adjective Usage: usually capitalized Etymology: from the Sudan + English -ic : sudanese II. noun Usage: capitalized …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
WESTERN — (a.) Moving toward the west; as, a ship makes a western course; coming from the west; as, a western breeze.
Английский словарь Webster
WESTERN — (a.) Of or pertaining to the west; situated in the west, or in the region nearly in the direction of …
Английский словарь Webster
WESTERN — ( a. ) Of or pertaining to the west; situated in the west, or in the region nearly in the …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
WESTERN — ( a. ) Moving toward the west; as, a ship makes a western course; coming from the west; as, a …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
WESTERN — /wes"teuhrn/ , adj. 1. lying toward or situated in the west: our company's western office. 2. directed or proceeding toward …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SUDANIC — /sooh dan"ik/ , adj. 1. (esp. in former systems of classification) of or pertaining to a residual category of African …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
WESTERN — I. ˈwes-tərn adjective Etymology: Middle English westerne, from Old English; akin to Old High German westrōni western, Old English west …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
WESTERN — adj moving toward the west; as, a ship makes a western course; coming from the west; as, a western breeze. …
Webster English vocab
WESTERN — [west.ern] adj [ME westerne, fr. OE; akin to OHG westroni western, OE west] (bef. 12c) 1 a: coming from the …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
SUDANIC — [Su.dan.ic] n [the Sudan region] (1912): a group of languages neither Bantu nor Afro-Asiatic spoken in central and western Africa …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
WESTERN — a genre of novels and short stories, motion pictures, and television and radio shows that are set in the American …
Britannica English vocabulary
WESTERN — western, W~ BrE AmE ˈwest ə n AmE - ə rn ▷ western|s z ▶ ˌ Western Au ˈ stralia …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
SUDANIC — Sudanic BrE AmE su ˈdæn ɪk
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
WESTERN — / ˈwestən; NAmE -ərn/ adjective , noun ■ adjective 1. [ only before noun ] ( abbr. W ) (also …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
WESTERN — I. west ‧ ern 1 S2 W2 BrE AmE , Western /ˈwestən $ -ərn/ adjective ( written abbreviation W ) …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
WESTERN — adj. & n. --adj. 1 of or in the west; inhabiting the west. 2 lying or directed towards the west. …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
WESTERN — adj. & n. adj. 1 of or in the west; inhabiting the west. 2 lying or directed towards the west. …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
WESTERN — adj. & n. --adj. 1. of or in the west; inhabiting the west. 2 lying or directed towards the west. …
Oxford English vocab
WESTERN — also Western ( westerns) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. Western means …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
WESTERN
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
WESTERN — n. Western Isles Western Samoa Western Bug River Chicago and North Western Transportation Co. country and western Ghats Eastern and …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
WESTERN — Synonyms and related words : 3-D, Cinemascope, Cinerama, Marchen, Technicolor, Western story, Westerner, adventure story, allegory, animated cartoon, apologue, bedtime …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
WESTERN — n a book or film that tells a story about cowboys in the Wild West . Westerns involve guns, horses …
Oxford Guide to British and American Culture English vocabulary
SUDANIC — Sudanic
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
SUDANIC — Sudanic
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
WESTERN — western.ogg 1. ʹwestən n (часто Western) 1. = westerner 2. вестерн ( ковбойский фильм ); ковбойский роман и т. п. …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
WESTERN — western прил.1) западный; относящийся к западу the commonwealth of Western nations — содружество западных государств in the contemporary western world …
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
WESTERN — 1. [ʹwestən] n (часто Western) 1. = ~er 2. вестерн ( ковбойский фильм ); ковбойский роман и т. п. 3. …
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
WESTERN — 1. ʹwestən n (часто Western) 1. = westerner 2. вестерн ( ковбойский фильм ); ковбойский роман и т. п. 3. …
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
WESTERN — 1. прил. 1) западный; относящийся к западу the commonwealth of Western nations — содружество западных государств in the contemporary western …
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
WESTERN — 1. прил. 1) западный; относящийся к западу the commonwealth of Western nations — содружество западных государств in the contemporary western world — в …
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
WESTERN — прил. 1) западный, относящийся к западу 2) амер. относящийся к западным штатам, ковбойский • - Western Hemisphere - Western Samoa
Англо-Русский словарь по экономике
WESTERN — вестерн 1) Один из традиционных жанров американского кинематографа, классическая тематика которого связана с освоением Запада [West, Frontier] во второй половине XIX …
WESTERN — вестерн 1) Один из традиционных жанров американского кинематографа, классическая тематика которого связана с освоением Запада [West, Frontier] во второй половине …
SUDANIC — Sudanic
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
SUDANIC — Sudanic
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
SUDANIC LANGUAGES — African languages spoken from Ethiopia in the east to Nigeria in the west. Totally unrelated languages were included in the …
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EASTERN SUDANIC LANGUAGES — group of languages representing the most diverse of the four subbranches of the Chari-Nile branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family. …
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CENTRAL SUDANIC LANGUAGES — group of languages spoken by various peoples in the southern Sudan, northeastern Zaire, northwestern Uganda, Chad, and the Central African …
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SHILLUK — People living on the western bank of the Nile in The Sudan. They speak an Eastern Sudanic language of the …
Английский словарь Британика
NUER — People of the marsh and savanna living on both banks of the Nile River in southern Sudan. They speak an …
Английский словарь Британика
NILOT — plural Nilotes Any member of a cluster of east-central African peoples living in southern Sudan, northern Uganda, and western Kenya. …
Английский словарь Британика
MAURITANIA — officially Islamic Republic of Mauritania Country, North Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean. Area: 398,000 sq mi (1,030,700 …
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DINKA — Cattle-herding people of the Nile basin in southern Sudan. They speak an eastern Sudanic language of the Nuer . Numbering …
Английский словарь Британика
NILOTIC — I. (ˈ)nī|läd.]ik, -ät], ]ēk\ adjective Usage: usually capitalized Etymology: Latin niloticus of the Nile, from nilotis, feminine adjective (from Greek …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
TONE LANGUAGE — noun : a language (as Chinese, Sudanic, or Bantu) in which variations in tone are regularly used to distinguish words …
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MORU — ˈmō(ˌ)rü, ˈmȯ(ˌ)- noun ( plural moru or morus ) Usage: usually capitalized 1. a. : a people of the Sudan …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SARA — cluster of peoples living on the fringe of the southern Sudan, especially in the northwestern regions of the Central African …
Britannica English vocabulary
NILO-SAHARAN LANGUAGES — group of languages presumed to be genetically interrelated, or descended from a common ancestral language. Joseph Greenberg proposed the Chari-Nile …
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NIGER-CONGO LANGUAGES — Distribution of the Niger-Congo languages. a family of languages of Africa, which in terms of the number of languages spoken, …
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MAURITANIA, FLAG OF — national flag consisting of a green field (background) with a central crescent and star. The flag has a width-to-length ratio …
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MANGBETU — also spelled Monbuttu peoples of central Africa living to the south of the Zande in northeastern Congo (Kinshasa). They speak …
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MADI — also spelled Ma'di, or Ma'adi Sudanic-speaking peoples who inhabit both banks of the Nile River in northwestern Uganda and in …
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ITURI FOREST — French Fort de L'ituri, tropical rainforest in central Africa that forms the northeastern section of the huge tropical forest covering …
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ISLAMIC WORLD — prehistory and history of the Islamic community. Adherence to Islam is a global phenomenon: Muslims predominate in some 30 to …
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CHARI-NILE LANGUAGES — also called Macro-sudanic Languages, branch of the Nilo-Saharan family of languages spoken in an area extending from southern Egypt to …
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CAMEROON, MOUNT — French Mont Cameroun, volcanic massif of southwestern Cameroon, rising to a height of 13,435 feet (4,095 m) and extending 14 …
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AFRICAN LANGUAGESADDITIONAL READING — Istvan Fodor, The Problems in the Classification of the African Languages: Methodological and Theoretical Conclusions Concerning the Classification System of …
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NILO-SAHARAN LANGUAGES — Group of perhaps 115 African languages spoken by more than 27 million people from Mali to Ethiopia and from southernmost …
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